April 28, 2008

UVC is an online organizer and instant messaging suite. UVC will centralize all data so that shared tasks and calendars are possible between users. You can also use the audio/video module to have group conversations with your friends or co-workers.

This module is capable of traversing most firewalls and works with all cameras supporting video for Windows. UVC consists of an address book, task management system, online scheduler, instant messenger, and video conferencing module.

April 27, 2008

"This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament—they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap.

We'll be rolling this out slowly going forward, but fairly soon you'll notice our new Chat bar at the bottom of your browser—no installation or assembly required. From this bar you can view your list of online friends and open conversations with any or all of them..."

April 26, 2008

Skype for your mobile is a beta version of Skype that you can download on to your mobile. You don’t need to switch operators or get a specialised phone. The software is free – although there might be a small data charge from your operator if you download it straight to your mobile.

The java based mobile Skype client works on around 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Skype for your Mobile Features:

* Works on almost 50 handsets, with a data plan.* Costs just a little to make and receive calls.* See when your contacts are online.* Instant message or call them using Skype.* Save on mobile calls to friends and family overseas.

April 23, 2008

MSC Messenger is an instant messaging application that allows you to chat with friends.

MSC Messenger has features like webcam and voice chat. You can use MSC with your friends and build your own network if you are not a fan of other popular IM clients like Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger.

April 21, 2008

"Last week, Flickr.com announced its new video feature, allowing Flickr Pro users to upload videos and share them online alongside their photos.

As a result, we added support for Flickr videos to the inline media player in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta. If you share a Flickr video link or a friend shares one with you, you can watch the video right in the IM window..."

April 19, 2008

Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer a tool for forensic professionals that eases their work on analysing Instant Messenger histories. You can easily extract your IM history into text, XML or HTML formats.

Search is supported - simple search by word or phrase and advanced search using file with suspect word or using regular expression which is very useful when searching a various word's forms or phrase with fuzzy structure.

The product can search installed messengers and history files on your computer as well as on mapped network drives (including Encase mapped drives). Thus you will find history files even in case you haven't installed messenger. It is possible to work with several histories at a time.

Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer Features:

· Support for ICQ (all versions from 97a to ICQ6), Microsoft MSN/LiveMessenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, MySpace IM, &RQ, Miranda, SIM, QIP and AIM (search history files only)· Have not found Internet Messenger of interest? Contact us!· No password required· Search for installed IMs· Intellectual search for history files in folders other than default IM history folders. Search can be performed on all computer's drives as well as on mapped network drives (including Encase mapped drives). Thus you will find history files even in case you haven't installed messengers.· Export extracted history into various formats - text, HTML, XML. You can constrain export by a contacts and dates chosen· Simple search through history and advanced search using file with a set of words to search. Experienced users can benefit from searching by regular expressions, which are great when searching for templates or phrases with fuzzy structure· Found results can be exported to the text, HTML and XML file· The work with multiple opened histories is supported (e.g. you can search through multiple histories)· You can filter contacts by various criteria (by absence of history, by first letter, by several letters)

April 18, 2008

MSN Repair 2 (Italian) is a small utility developed by the Italian developer Valentino Marangi. It fixes problems and common errors in Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger. The user interface of MSN Repair is very simple. By clicking a single button you can fix 13 common errors in registry settings, program libraries and files that have been altered since installation of MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger.

April 17, 2008

fring is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo and AIM friends using your handset's internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes.

A preview version of fring is now available for use on the iPhone. fring for iPhone allows you talk, chat and interact with other fring users and all of their online communities, using iPhone's WiFi connection.

April 16, 2008

The Gilly Messenger application was designed to be a light version of Windows Live Messenger. Gilly Messenger has simple user interface like MSN Messenger 5 but has alot of useful features including Scripting capability, Remote Control, Chat Bot, Auto Message, Ignore contact etc.

April 15, 2008

Minicontacts for Windows Live Messenger allows you view your contacts in a 'low-res' contact list. It comes with a search feature and ability to replace the original contact list (set in preferences).

How to use Minicontacts:

- Make sure you have Live Messenger and Messenger Plus! Live installed.- Download the script, open it, accept the warning and press Import.- Click on the Messenger Plus! Scripts logo in your contact list.- Click on MiniContacts and choose one of the options.

April 14, 2008

Hello is a new tool from Picasa that allows you instantly send your pictures to your friends and talk about them.

When you use Hello, you get to see your photographs together with your friends online. You don’t have to wait for huge email attachments to download or upload your pictures to a public website. Just point at a picture and you can tell the person who sent it exactly what you think. With just one click, you can get the original high-quality, full-sized file to print.

When you use Hello and Picasa together, your received images will instantly appear in your Picasa folders.

April 12, 2008

"In March 2008, we asked our readers to nominate their favorite instant messengers in six categories for our first ever IM Best Awards, a celebration of the best in the IM industry. After an overwhelming response, the nominations have finally been tabulated and the results are in!

In addition to a number of veteran instant messengers, this year’s list features many third-party clients, one even sweeping five out of six categories with six total nominations..."

-Check your Youtube account for new friend invites, messages, and received videos.-Opens a url in a compact window so you don't have to go to Youtube to directly watch the video.-Can download Youtube Videos-Can set your display pic as a video's thumbnail-Can send a Shared Search for videos on Youtube-Automatically checks your account for new events like a received message

April 10, 2008

Yugma Team Collaboration for Skype plugin lets you connect with up to 10 other people for free. You can upgrade any time to host meetings with up to 500 other people. Typical uses include collaboration with offsite team members, virtual presentations, webinars, streamline workflow, remote tech support, customer service, elearning, study groups, tutoring sessions, and much more.

April 09, 2008

"This evening I decided to play with a really kewl new app called Fluid. What this app does is allow you to create Site Specific Browsers. One of the first usages which popped into mind was a product I helped develop, Yahoo! Web Messenger. An annoyance of mine with it is that it had to live in a browser tab, something prone to getting closed accidentally, and also didn’t have any decent notifications of new messages when not in focus. Being the perfect candidate for Fluid, IMHO, I set out to give it a shot. In less than an hours time I built a pretty kewl demo and here’s how you can use it too.

April 08, 2008

"We’ve received word that Facebook has released its much anticipated chat/IM application to a few unspecified networks. The “pre-launch beta”, as Facebook is calling it, started sometime last night....The only thing new that we’ve learned is that Facebook Chat will incorporate mini-feed stories into IM conversations. If you’re chatting with someone and they do something to your profile, like post a message on your wall, you will get a notification into your chat window with them..."

Wall-E is a new animation movie by Disney and Pixar which features a robot named Wall-E. This skin is based on the Wall-E movie and comes with a series of settings to make your Messenger experience more unique.

April 06, 2008

"On Tuesday we asked for your favorite instant messaging applications, and over 550 comments later, we've culled it down to the most popular five. From web-based chat to desktop clients to tools that combine IM, email, and social networking, your nominations spanned a wide range of instant messaging applications. Let's take a closer look at the five most voted-for apps, and face them off against each other in a final showdown to crown the ultimate favorite..."

April 05, 2008

Google Talk Labs Edition is an experimental version of the Gtalk client. It has many of the same features as the Google Talk Gadget, including instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat. Some features like voice calling and file transfer from the Google Talk client did not make it into this version.

Google Talk Labs Edition also comes with new desktop notifications from Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail.

Currently, Google Talk Labs Edition is only available for Windows PCs.

April 04, 2008

"...In honor of Earth Day (3 weeks from today: April 22, 2008), on that day our Google Talk servers will start automatically sending your conversations using IM-speak instead of normal words. But you can help save some computing power (and more wasted energy!) by shortening your conversations yourself.

We know you'll all want to practice your IM-speak, so we're helping by introducing a new translation bot, en2im@bot.talk.google.com, which will translate your conversations into IM-speak, to help you get used to the new lingo....For example, if we want to say:As far as I'm concerned, you can give me the twenty dollars you owe me when I see you later.

You could save more than 50% in wasted characters by saying:AFAIC, U can gve me the 20 $$ YOM whn I CUL8R."

April 03, 2008

Google Translator is a Messenger Plus! Live script which allows you simply translate what you wrote in your chat window when you press the F5 key. You can translate in every language available at Google Translation services page.

April 02, 2008

When you choose a new skin it changes the design of the headers of your contact list as well as your IM conversation window (and adds some accents in other areas). There are currently 7 skins to choose from in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

To change your skin in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, click the gold dot up near the top of the contact list window. It’s located near the minimize / mazimize / close buttons. Once the skin menu appears, hover your mouse on a skin to view it, then click to select it.